Beginning in September, Tektronix open Windows oscilloscopes will include ready-to-run applications of National Instruments Labview graphical development environment.

Davidson Measurement and IntelEng announced they are combining to provide a solution to calibration management. They will be known as Davidson eCalibration Services.

The electronic systems division of Tenix Defence will give $500,000 to the Federal Government from commercialising smart defence technologies last year.

Semrock has made available a line of erbium-doped fibres. The fibre portfolio consists of both C-Band and L-Band fibres, in 125 and 80 micron cladding diameters.

Scientists at University of Ulster have developed sensors that are inserted in transplant organs to monitor if there has been any deterioration in the organs condition since being removed from the donor.

UQM technologies electric motor/generator and electronic inverter are powering a power assist parallel hybrid electric system developed by Electromotive, Virginia.

Anritsu has announced that its Melbourne based service and calibration centre has attained NATA (National Association of Testing Authorities) accreditation.

Sandisk and Toshiba have announced the creation of a mobile commerce (MC) extension standard for flash memory cards. The standard will enable the implementation of security functions in addition to the standard memory features that are already supported by such cards.

Philips is selling its x-ray analytical business to Spectris later this year. The business which will be renamed PANalytical will form part of the process technology sector.

National Semiconductor Corporation has joined the RapidIO Trade Association. The association was formed to promote the RapidIO architecture which promises increased bandwidth, lower costs, and faster time-to-market for networking and communications infrastructure.

C&K Components Plus will now be trading as Switches Plus Components. This change has resulted from the sale of the US company to ITT Industries.

EMC Technologies has gained NATA accreditation for modelling the dispersion of electromagnetic fields (EMF) from mobile phone towers.

Infineon Technologies and Micron Technology are collaborating in developing specifications for CellularRAM memory, a family of low power pseudo static RAM (PSRAM) for wireless applications.

An optically pumped nanocrystal quantum dot laser has been demonstrated by a group at MIT. The gain medium consists of nm-sized particles of CdSe coated with a layer of organic molecules and then immersed in a glassy film. The medium sits in a waveguide atop a grating. The fabrication advantage in this case derives from the fact that one uses simple solution processing rather than the technique of epitaxy usually needed for semiconductors.

Physicists at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences (Ottawa) have created a prototype of a single-spin transistor, that consists of a quantum dot connected to spin-polarised leads.